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I'm grandpa.
This. I assume whenever it happens for me I'm gonna melt like a sno-cone on a hot sidewalk at whatever comes out of their mouth.
Meh. I’m not quite grandpa age yet, but I think it’s usually the parents of the kid that kind of name you. So in saying that, you could kind of tell them your preference.
My dad is Pop Pop to my kids because that's what he wanted to be called. I call my grandparents Grandma and Grandpa because that's what my parents called their grandparents. I don't know if my grandparents or parents called that shot.
My daughter tried to get her to say Papa when she first started talking and it came out Pap Paw it stuck. I love it just as much now at 17 as I did when she was a baby.
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I had one set of grandparents who didn't really care what we called them, so we just naturally called them "Grandma" and "Grandpa".
yeah, it's weird that way. My grandparents were named by the first grandkid - FeFe and Pa Charlie. My grandma's name was Ida ...how my cousin came up with FeFe - we don't know and neither does she.
Similar boat. I actually had this conversation with my own mother when my first child was born. I had always called my grandma by a nickname, and she asked if we were going to have our child call her (my mother) by the same nickname. I told her that it's up to what the kids call her, and that I wasn't going to force a nickname on to the kids. To me, that was what I did and it stuck. I don't see why I need to push my kids to call someone one thing or another. My wife's family doesn't do that, and there aren't any issues. However, I think there's still some level of resentment from my parents when I took this stance. Kind of like they felt disrespected.
I look at grandparents that insist on being called a certain nickname the same way I look at athletes that give themselves a nickname (or change their jersey number so they can have a catchy nickname, I'm looking at you Paul George); get over yourself.
Isn't that what names are? Everyone is basically "pushed" to use the name given to them. However, babies sometimes can't say the name they are told and it morphs to something and then it sticks. You can't really force it. Names are just that names. When kids cannot pronounce the name is when other names are adopted.
Is kind of like what Jim Rome has said; you don't get to nickname yourself, others do it for you.
Damn, you had kids EARLY.rustycolts said:
Yep
